Improvement in billiard-cues



MARTIN V. 'INGERSOLL OF NORWALK BRIDGE, CONN ECTICUTL Letters Patent No. 106,166, dated AugustQ, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD-cuns.

The Schacht-1e referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sanne To all whom 'it may concern Beit known that I, MARTIN V. INGERSOLL, of Norwalk Bridge, in the county of Fairfield and State of 'Connectiont, have inventeda new Improvement iu Billiard-One and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereou,to be a full, clear, and enact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent iny,

Figurel, a side view, complete;

Figure 2, the first,-

Figure 3, the second, and

Figure 4, the third operation of forming the head;

Figure 5, the f'errule; and in Figure (5, a central section, enlarged. i

This invention relates to an improvement in the manner of forming and attaching billiardfcue heads.

It is needless `to'speeify the inconvenience and annoyance occasioned by the heads of common construetiou requiring -frequent replacement, to overcome whichis the object of my invention; and

It consists in forming the cue-head' with a sleeve, to surround the cue, and with a holder below the head, and the said head secured tothe cue bya band or ferrule around the said sleeve, and below the shoulder.

From leather or other suitable 1naterial, I outa cross-form, as seen in fig. 2, and this, when in a soft or moist state, I draw into the form seen in iig. 3. I then ent away the sidesand so as to form a shoulder, a, below the end, as seen in fig. 4, the reduced or sleeve portion being of la size .to pass into a ferrnle, B, as seen in iig. 5. 1 place the sleeve thus formed into 'a ferrule, B, and then, having reduced the end of thev eue, insert it into the ferrule, as seen in fig. 6, pressing the sleeve between the ferrule and one, (the sleeve and head beingr denoted in solid black) taking care always that the head be slightly larger than. the ferrnle, as seen lin iig. 6.

This construction affords an 'elast-ic head, and one which it is impossible to accidentally remove, and which must last `until entirely worn out, thereby `overcoming the many objections to the heads of common construction.

I claim as my invent-ione I A billiard-cue head formed wit-h a sleeve to surround the cue,and constructed with a shoulder below the 

